Google using location for all search results

I can’t say this is a surprise. We have all known that Google presents different results to different people. It used to be the data center answer :

SEO: You are #2 for your top keyword

CLIENT: When I put that keyword into Google I show up on the second page

SEO: Google has hundreds of datacenters so its not uncommon to see different results..yadda yadda yadda

We (me and my peeps) have known that local was going to rule the day for quite a while. I think the structure on that last sentence was terrible. I have known that sooner or later it was going to come down to local based results even for national searches. Google is moving towards all biz all the time. I guess a gazillion dollars isn’t enough.

Lots of talk about Google saying that the keyword tool was going to present commercially viable results, etc. I don’t know its all just buzz to me (hehe get it?), seriously tho. Google should change their motto from do no evil to “anyone who says money isnt everything clearly doesn’t have any”.

No time to get into this location based results, and I have nothing to say that hasn’t been said a thousand times. I just thought I would jump on and say – I told you so.

However, the joke is on me. I left my position as a partner in a local search marketing company to go work for a big firm 367 days ago. Got to give it up to Al Oelschlaeger (I can never remember how to spell his name) tho’, he saw this coming years ago. I hope he is able to capitalize on that before it’s beaten to death.

Good thing all the hit and run Gurus are getting all creamy over auto-blogging, or rather selling the concept to the sucker who was born a minute ago. I’m sure they will get back on the local search bandwagon soon enough.

Getting your site listed in Google in under 30 minutes

This is a short post, I have a ton of work to do and I don’t have much to say on this subject. This post is really just to call attention to the last post I made about neon sculptures in Milwaukee.

#1 link in Google for low hanging fruit is not only easily attainable, I can get it in under 30 minutes. Now a search phrase for neon sculptures in Milwaukee may seem like a silly phrase to you, but to a sculptor who makes things out of neon, this listing could be what determines if he gets to keep his lights on next month.

The yellow pages are dead, you have heard it before, and it’s true. Marketing your business, to your community is not difficult.  We can show you what to do, or do it for you.

I will be announcing a local business marketing seminar that we will be holding in Milwaukee sometime in July. Stay tuned.